Brian Walton

Most specialty back pain chairs cost far more than an Aeron though. Because of the build quality and resale value the Aeron (if you get the right model) is still a decent choice for most people. Same as buying the Rolex. There are better out there and cheaper, but almost ironically you can sell the thing in 10 years with use and get back the majority of what you paid for it. I wouldn't by an Aeron new, but there is a large range of prices one can get them for used. $40 - close to retail. I do agree with the advice if someone legitimately has a back problem go the real ergonomic route, but also don't come away paying $300 for a chair. Most at going to cost 2x-4x an Aeron. The $300 chair that is just as ergonomic absolutely exists, but most of the specialty shops are not going to sell it because there isn't' enough meat on the bone for them to stay in business selling them to locals that are coming in for a custom fitting.

Yeah, for modeling they are pretty good. That said, the Milkman, Benson, etc are not my dream amps. And also have good captures of them or similar in ToneX. ToneX is arguably more work to get a perfected sound though and I can understand why some don't want to go down that path. Other negatives are ilok, price, and no hardware option. With the Tonex pedal ~2ms confirmed throughput delay simply beats the feel I can personally get in a software based system without dedicating said computer to only that task and run it into another computer - which then by nature adds latency.

It is still $35, and the only reason it is legacy is they are updating it for the new ecosystem which is supposedly included in the price. And it was on sale for like $40-50 frequently from what I recall - so even a year out the price hasn't really dropped that much. Either way, hard to get excited about any of it with ToneX on the market. Honestly the only thing that peaks my interest is the Komet sims as I'm simply curious how they have approached some of the best boutique amps out there - which are sorely lacking in the ToneX world.

I've been wondering the same with a new computer build I've been doing. Hit a road block when that installer basically doesn't exist. Terrible practice.

I haven't had any issues yet and it seems like I've been running some version of v17 for a month on multiple computers. That said, the new installer doesn't allow the full off-line install stuff unless they changed something in the last week or so. Was told previously adding that back in was in the works.

Tone Junkie, the Studio Rats and Chop Tones all have twin reverb captures for Tonex. And there are also free captures of twins. Think nembrini should focus on more boutique things to stay relevant. At some point the people buying to complete the collection in this economy will die off.

I've bought handmade fuzz pedals in this price range before. Curious who is paying that much for an ITB emulation.

The product is an actual tape deck not an emulation. But as for tape emulation these days it is no different than a tube guitar amp emulation. Even if someone has never owned a tube amp a super accurate recreation of it is going to sound and feel good to the player because it is enheriting those pleasing characteristics. Accurate tape emulation is the same thing, just even more subtle.

The ToneX one is really only designed for A/B switching. Yes, it can store 20 on there, but it is a nightmare to use that in some meaningful way. If you only need to switch between two settings, it is fantastic. If you want to store and use presets, the big one is the way to go. The AXE IO ONE is a fairly new offering and yes, it offers quite a bit at the price, including amp capture abilities which is likely the only interface on the market at that price with that..

NAM is rather resource hungry which isn't something you want in a real time effect as the most accurate feel is at the lowest latency possible. More captures in Tonex platform. An ecosystem that isn't strictly tied to a computer with very affordable pedals.

It sounds and feels a whole lot more like a real amp. You can still use it within at5 to add in effects. Once you have a collection of profiles you like - you many never use AT5 amps again. There is a lot of free stuff on tonenet and with some 3rd party providers to get started with.

No, it isn't modeling technology and it is the only amp in a box worth buying.

It isn't the worst program, but they have a long way to go to make the UI and experience like Capture One. I don't think they will ever get there. I personally think they need a lite version that responds better and focuses on making the tools a joy to use. It is far too clunky. GIMP is the solid free choice for individuals truly averse to paying anything. But honestly, I'm of the mindset that if you are going to dedicate the time to learn the tools (which is substantial), a 50% off of Affinity Photo is money well spent to have a more enjoyable user experience for the many hours one is going to sit in front of that program not only to learn it but to really use it.

My problem is more to do with the UI and some of the organization of tools. It is like saying dark table is powerful...it is but a chore to use.

Affinity photo at 50% off ftw. Gimp is powerful but painful to use

Yes one LD overhead and bass drum as the core. Then add snare, and if going to 4 mics add the side overhead condenser on the "ride" side of the set.

With the strip you can also send the drums to a bus and just used it as a master effect on all of it. Just messing around with it a bit I felt like I could get some pretty good drum sounds that way as long as each piece was reasonably well recorded. I also work with a 3-4 mic drum setup most of the time and find that achieves what I'm looking for better than a "mic everything" approach.

True it might be. I seem to only use it during the mixdown where I can have high latency. Need to try via tracking.

Have you used it a single time after getting MDrumStrip? ? For those that don't have complete or want future bundle upgrades certainly worth looking at for the price.

It is fine if it isn't a program for you , but I still think your view of what it does is limited compared to what it actually does. Reading your post all I can envision is owning a guitar and thinking I don't need a musician to make music with it because I already have the instrument that is capable of chords, scales, etc. That workflow sounds dreadful. This program costs $35, not $800.

Respectfully I think you have a limited understanding of what scaler 2 is capable of if you are just thinking about it in terms of grabbing a chord progression from Google and some Reaper script.

I wouldn't say the "whole point" of the program is for those who even lack basic theory. If you watch some advanced videos on it can bring advanced chord substitutions and odd chords and voicings to people that have played music for decades but never went down those paths. I've played guitar for 3 decades and it gives me ideas I never would have thought of or used. Some of that could be attributed to keyboard layouts but none the less still a valuable tool for a non beginner too.

Well I attempted some sort of approximation of this the first time and it absolutely didn't work for me and thus had to recreate it manually. I also may have a different folder and preset structure that has probably around 100 folders for organizing things. Those were not coming over with the copy and paste as far as I could tell. Need IKM to provide real documentation on how it could be done. Seems odd that the "backup" and restore can't be done cross machine or at least not in a comprehensive way easily.

And yet Softube's amps are not even close to the same feel/sound realism of Tonex.

How do we use this to transfer the database (and folder structure) to another install of TONEX? It literally took me 6 hours worth of work importing paid packs, downloading tonenet stuff I liked, and then creating the folder structures to "mirror" another computer I use. There has to be an easy way to do this.